Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle Illustrated by David de las Heras (for The Folio Society)

In the original novel by Boulle, the ape society was at about the same stage as mid-20th Century Earth. Rod Serling’s original script for the movie was also set in the same era. But due to budgetary issues, the rewrite by Michael Wilson re-set it in a more primitive era.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

La Planète des Singes

Originally published in French in 1963, La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle was the origin of the Apes saga. 1971 French-language hardback edition published by GP pictured above.

i designed these postcards for my science fiction class final project! they are based off of, in order from first to last, The Time Machine by HG Wells, Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Dawn by Octavia Butler, and The Martian by Andy Weir

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After the extinction of cats and dogs in 1982, humans started using apes as pets. By 1991 they had become a major source of slave labor. Caesar, the intelligent ape son of survivors of the Planet of the Apes who had fallen backwards in time, witnesses the mistreatment of his fellow apes. When Caesar learns of the death of the only human he really cared for (who was being forced to tell about Caesar by a machine called the Authenticator and killed himself before he completely revealed everything about Caesar) he lead an ape uprising against the human oppressors. This uprising lead to what would become known as the Planet of the Apes. ("Conquest of the Planet of the Apes", flm)

Planet of the Apes (2001, Tim Burton)

31/03/2024

Planet of the Apes is a 2001 film directed by Tim Burton.

It is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name, based on the novel Planet of the Apes (La Planète des singes) di Pierre Boulle.

In the year 2029, the daring astrounat Leo Davidson works in the Oberon space base in close contact with primates trained to carry out space missions; His favorite is Pericles, a chimpanzee. Once inside, Leo loses all contact with the Oberon and ends up crash-landing in the swamp of the alien planet of Ashlar, in the year 5021.

Leo will soon discover that this planet is populated by talking, evolved anthropomorphic apes who treat humans like slaves. The astrounat, captured by the apes, is later bought by a human trader named Limbo, a greedy and inept orangutan.

Due to a series of circumstances Leo manges to escape from prison and frees other humans and slaves, including the gorilla ex-soldier Krull, whose military career was destroyed by the evil general Thade, a chimpanzee, who manages the hunt to humans since the death of his father Zaius and is assisted by the ferocious gorilla Colonel Attar. The destination of the escape is "Calima", a sacred place for the monkeys, the temple of their god Seamus: according to their religion, in that place the god gave rise to the life of the monkeys.

In the finale, Leo reaches Earth in what he believes is his time, crashing near Washington. Walking inside the Lincoln Memorial, Leo is horrified to discover that the giant statue of the president possesses the face of General Thade.

The film came to light after a very intense development hell: ideas for a remake of Planet of the Apes date back to the 1980s, when Adam Rifkin was brought to 20th Century Fox studios with the desire to make a new film about apes. His film was to be called Return to the Planet of the Apes and described apes in Greco-Roman customs and habits fighting against a society of intelligent humans, the lineage of the protagonists of the 1968 classic, inspired by films such as Spartacus.

Peter Jackson later wanted to adapt a similar project in which the ape society was modeled after Renaissance culture and Roddy McDowall, the actor who had played Cornelius and Caesar in the original films, was open to the idea of having a part in the role of a monkey with an appearance inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. Jackson, however, dedicated himself to the creation of heavenly Creatures and only decided to resume the project in 1998, only to abandon it again when McDowall's death took away his enthusiasm.

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Read of Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (1963) (268pgs)

Translated from French

Nine editions of “Planet of the Apes” by Pierre Boulle (also known as “Monkey Planet” and “La planete des singes”)

Pierre Boulle

Monkey Planet

Beautiful custom-made slipcase for the first UK edition.

Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)

Het is ook alweer dertig jaar geleden dat de Franse auteur Pierre Boulle (foto YouTube) is overleden. Zijn naam zegt u hoogstwaarschijnlijk niets, maar hij is wel de auteur van twee enorme blockbusters: “De brug over de rivier Kwai” en “De apenplaneet”… Continue reading Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)

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Sailing starship What if ?? Sailing boats became spaceships ? I tried to image what it would look like. The idea came from the begining of the book Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (1963) where a sailing starship recover a bottle containing the story of a man which has landed on the Planet of the Apes.

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(it's funny because at the end, we discover that the peoples reading the story are Apes saying it's a fiction, it's not possible to have an intelligent human)

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

My rating: 6/10

Surprisingly good, considering how deep into the sequels we are here.